The Number One Reason That Stop People From Learning Music

“I don’t think I can play as well as those kids. They start at 3, I start at 30!”

In my years of teaching violin, these are some of the questions adult learners ask me when they enquire about lessons.

These are common questions.

Afterall, if you do a search on famous musicians, their profiles will always highlight the age they started music.

And if we do a search…

Vanessa-Mae starts lesson at 3.

Vanessa-Mae

Famous Dutch violinist Andre Rieu starts lessons at 5.

Andre Rieu

Even my favorite YouTube violinist Lindsey Stirling starts at 6.

Lindsey Stirling

If you look at these stats, you would have given up learning music when you’re 7.

And this is the big reason that stop people from learning music! They thought that to learn music well, they have to start young! (And young may means under the age of 7, not 10 years old!). Anyway, I have quash the myth in my article here.

But today, I want to say i’m quite proud of my student, Rini. She is a mum of 4 teenagers. We started lessons in 2013 and yesterday she took her first ever exam, at Grade 2.